Bourne vs. Bond and the DVD “300”

In a recent informal survey conducted by Minneapolis radio station KFAN AM-1130, listeners were asked to cast their vote for who they viewed as the bigger bad ass. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon, who has starred in three Bourne movies in the past six years), or James Bond (roll them all up into one Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and the newest Bond, Daniel Craig). The winner hands down – 58% to 42% was the Jason Bourne character played by Matt Damon. Perhaps because The Bourne Ultimatum was just released and perhaps because Bourne doesn’t use all the gadgets that Bond relies on to get himself out of scrapes.

Another interesting fact: Matt Damon is keeping Hollywood in business as an actor. For each $1 he earns in salary for the roles he plays, his moves earn $29 back for the studio. So if Damon gets paid $10 million for a movie roll, the studio can expect a windfall of $290 million. Not a bad payday for either party. The female netting the most per dollar? Jennifer Aniston. I like Aniston, but I’d never give her “star power” when compared to the likes of Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron, to name only three. For every $1 Aniston earns in salary, the studio nets back $17, raising another sticky wicket: There’s just no sense of equality among men and women when it comes to salaries – even in Hollywood.

300

The movie “300” came out on DVD last Friday. I managed to stop by a Blockbuster on the way home Monday evening and grab a copy that had just been returned. Can I just say, yawn. Action movies are great and the cinematography in this movie was amazing, but after the first hour they had very little left to do except kill the Spartans. There’s only so many times that a closeup of a spear running through a body with blood spurting out in every direction is remotely interesting. I can just imagine all the computer enhancers sitting around the editing room on this film getting off on the sequences as they added blood spatter here and there trying to one-up each other with each kill of a Persian or Spartan. And, oh, by the way, if I had to listen to the lead actor in this movie shout “SPARTANS!” one more time, it really would have been the end of him on my television. In fact, I stuck out the entire movie so I could see him get pelted with hundreds of arrows. That was worth it!

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I beg to differ. Jason Bourne can’t even remember his own name, he does not have an identity and he spends 3 movies running away from his former employer who is trying to kill him whilst Bond, well he doesn’t run away, he in fact quite literally sat through his torture and he knows who he is, even if he is a killer. The poll is done during the time when the movie was just released, so the memory is fresh for Bourne. Moreover people just love to hate Bond, because he has it all, perfect swimming trunks included. Totally unrealiable and personally I never liked the Bourne movies. Jason does sound like a very mundane name.

Interesting that both these characters have the same initials. I didn’t hear all of the radio show in which they addressed the characters, but I think the focus was on who the bigger bad ass was from a “Im’ma beat the snot out of you perspective.” Bond may be smarter (and a 007 gadget would be, for example, a car that doubles as a personal water craft), while Bourne is brute force. In a fist fight, Bourne gets the knock down over Bond.

Bourne over Bond just in terms of movie making==there;s been celluloid progress since “Diamonds Are Forever”

But with that said, as far as real bad asses go, it’s Bond over Bourne any day.

Connery was so damn cool!

Lastly, I’m not a member of the Sapphic Sisterhood Chuck, but I have to say that I think Angelina Jolie has got to be one of the most beautiful women in the world. She’s also a good actress–i can’t deny that. Charlize is pretty too. Julia is too orthodontially challenged for my tastes.

But Aniston? Cute in what she does best. And that in those simple, farcical girl-next-door roles.